Joe Rogan clashes with guest over Epstein’s death

Podcaster Joe Rogan clashed with guest Michael Shellenberger over Jeffrey Epstein’s death, asking why the author was dismissing suspicions the sex offender may not have died by suicide.

In Tuesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the pair discussed newly surfaced Department of Justice (DoJ) records that reveal that Tova Noel – the last prison guard to see Epstein alive – made a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit 10 days before his death, and googled him minutes before he was found dead.

Noel was also accused of falsifying records to show that she checked on Epstein throughout the night of his death. CCTV footage shows that Noel and another guard did not check on Epstein for around eight hours.

On Tuesday, Rogan raised the possibility that Epstein may not have died by suicide. “If you do have a guard and all of a sudden this guard acquires several payments. She made several deposits. One of them was $5,000 just ten days before he died,” Rogan said.

“And then the cameras are cut. Okay? And then they mysteriously don’t pay attention to the cell of one of the most important defendants of any case, any gigantic public case involving enormously famous public figures, and then this guy hangs himself while he’s on suicide watch?”

Shellenberger responded: “I had that same story. I was like, the cameras are cut. The security guards are asleep. All those things are true. It’s also true that the cameras went out a long time before that night… It didn’t just go out that night before. Security guards fall asleep at night all the time. He attempted suicide, I believe, 18 days before.”

Regarding theories that Epstein did not die by suicide, Shellenberger added: “When you start looking at the evidence for that… they are not actually evidence of it.”

Rogan responded: “Why are you dismissing this? I don’t understand why you’re dismissing this.”

Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on August 10, 2019.

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